Comparison · 15 material differences
All Raise vs NVCA
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Verified September 2026
Networking organization
Verified September 2026 All Raise
Women and nonbinary investors working at venture capital firms, at associate level or above
Professional association
NVCA
Firms that invest venture-stage risk equity capital in the United States, plus the service providers who work with them
What the records say
- Role or title — All Raise: Must work at a venture firm at associate level or above; NVCA: No published role or title.
- Minimum employees — All Raise: No published minimum employees; NVCA: At least one full-time employee (or full-time equivalent) dedicated to private equity investing.
- Gender — All Raise: Open to women and nonbinary investors; NVCA: No published gender.
- Geographic restriction — All Raise: No published geographic restriction; NVCA: Must be investing or planning to invest risk equity capital in the United States.
- Annual dues — All Raise: $0 a year; NVCA: $500–35,000 a year.
Side by side
| All Raise | NVCA | |
|---|---|---|
| Profile | ||
| Type | Networking organization | Professional association |
| Founded | 2018 (Launched in April 2018 by Cowboy Ventures' Aileen Lee together with a group of senior women investors, reported at the time as 34 co-founders) | 1973 (Founding year of 1973 is reported by secondary reference sources; NVCA's own site does not state it on the pages checked) |
| Headquarters | United States | Washington, United States |
| Geographic footprint | United States; the community is national and largely virtual, with in-person events and an annual summit | United States, with offices in Washington DC and San Francisco |
| Members | 1,300as of September 2026 | Could not be independently verified — NVCA publishes a full member directory but no headline count; secondary sources cite figures between 400 and 460 member firms without a clear date |
| Chapters | Not applicable — All Raise has no chapter structure | Not publicly disclosed — NVCA has no chapter structure; it operates from two offices |
| Primary audience | Women and nonbinary investors working at venture capital firms, at associate level or above | Firms that invest venture-stage risk equity capital in the United States, plus the service providers who work with them |
| Typical member | Members are investment professionals at venture firms — associate level and above — rather than founders or operators. All Raise's wider programming (such as its founder-facing work) reaches a broader audience, but community membership itself is restricted to investors. | Member organizations are venture partnerships, corporate venture groups, family offices, funds of funds and university or accelerator programmes that invest risk equity capital in the US. Membership is held by the firm rather than the individual. |
| Qualification | ||
| Role or title | Must work at a venture firm at associate level or aboveExcludes founders, operators and those below associate levelverified September 2026 · source ↗ | No published role or title |
| Minimum employees | No published minimum employees | At least one full-time employee (or full-time equivalent) dedicated to private equity investingverified September 2026 · source ↗ |
| Gender | Open to women and nonbinary investorsverified September 2026 · source ↗ | No published gender |
| Geographic restriction | No published geographic restriction | Must be investing or planning to invest risk equity capital in the United StatesOpen to non-US firms that invest into the USverified September 2026 · source ↗ |
| Invitation required | No | No |
| Sponsor required | No | No |
| Application process | Eligible investors apply through All Raise's digital portal at portal.allraise.org. There is no fee and no published sponsorship or interview requirement; the eligibility statement — woman or nonbinary, at a venture firm, associate level or above — is the only stated gate. | A firm submits an application form at nvca.org/nvca-application-form/ or contacts the membership team. Eligibility is checked against the risk-capital and staffing tests, and dues are set from the firm's committed capital band. There is no published interview or sponsorship step. |
| Selectivity | Not publicly disclosed — All Raise publishes eligibility criteria but no acceptance data | Not publicly disclosed — NVCA states eligibility criteria but does not publish acceptance or rejection data |
| Cost | ||
| Annual dues | $0 a yearCommunity membership is free; All Raise states there is no membership costverified September 2026 · source ↗ | $500–35,000 a yearStandard VC fund category, banded by committed capital across funds closed in the past ten years: $500 at $5M; $1,000 for $5M–$9.9M; $2,000–$6,000 for $10M–$99.9M (plus $500 per additional $10M); $10,000–$17,500 for $100M–$499.9M (plus $2,500 per additional $100M); $22,500–$32,500 for $500M–$999.9M; $35,000 and above for $1B+ (plus $5,000 per additional $500M)verified September 2026 · source ↗ |
| Initiation fee | All Raise is donor- and partner-funded rather than dues-funded. | Not publicly disclosedverified September 2026 |
| Programme fee | Not publicly disclosed — fees for the VC cohort programmes and the VC Summit are not published on the pages checkedverified September 2026 | Dues are firm-level and set from committed capital in funds closed over the previous ten years. |
| Membership term | Not documented | Annual |
| Structure | ||
| Meeting frequency | Virtual events, roundtables and speaker series through the year, plus the annual All Raise VC Summit | National events through the year, including the Strategic Operations and Policy Summit and the Leadership Awards Dinner; advisory committees meet separately |
| Peer forums | Cohort programmes for venture investors alongside an open community platform; no confidential small-group forum system is published | No peer-forum structure; members organise through advisory committees and policy working groups |
| Confidentiality | Could not be independently verified — no published confidentiality policy was found | Could not be independently verified — no published confidentiality policy was found |
| Time commitment | Not documented | Not documented |
| Organized as | Virtual, Event-focused, Cohort-based | Event-focused, Virtual |
| Confidential peer forums | Partial | No |
| Local chapters | No | No |
| Virtual membership | Yes | No |
| Online community | Yes | Partial |
| Member directory | Partial | Yes |
| Events | Yes | Yes |
| Programming | ||
| Educational programming | Partial | Partial |
| Leadership development | Yes | Partial |
| Retreats | No | No |
| Travel | No | No |
| Family programming | No | No |
| Spouse and partner programming | No | No |
| Next-generation programming | Partial | No |
| Investment discussions | Yes | Partial |
| Investment opportunities | No | No |
| Philanthropic component | No | No |
| Networking emphasis | High | Medium |
| Social emphasis | Medium | Low |
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